Vegetation survey design for conservation: Gradsect sampling of forests in North-eastern New South Wales

MP Austin; Petrus C. Heyligers

doi:10.1016/0006-3207(89)90003-7

Keywords

TransectSampling (signal processing)Vegetation (pathology)Range (aeronautics)Environmental scienceFloristicsGeographyPhysical geographyEcologyGeologyComputer scienceSpecies richnessOceanographyEngineering

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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation AU

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Year: 1989
Type: article
Volume: 50
Issue: 1-4
Pages: 13-32
Citations: 228
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                                    MP Austin, 
                                
                                    Petrus C. Heyligers
                                
                            (1989). 
                            Vegetation survey design for conservation: Gradsect sampling of forests in North-eastern New South Wales. 
                            Biological Conservation
                            , 50
                            (1-4)
                            , 13-32.
                            https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3207(89)90003-7

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DOI: 10.1016/0006-3207(89)90003-7